Charles Dickens, a gossip about his life, works, and characters
By: by Thomas Archer ; with eighteen full-page character sketches (reproduced in photogravure) by Frederick Barnard, and other illustrations by well-known artists
Contributors: Barnard, Frederick, 1846-1896
Publisher: Cassell
Published: 1885
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870; Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Illustrations
Notes: "Supplied to subscribers only"--Head of printed cover to each part

Each part has three leaves of plates and 16 p. of letterpress, except part 6 has 12 p. and contents leaf. Title leaf, in red and black, in part 1 only

The illustrations by Bernard are republished from "Character sketches from Dickens [1st-3rd ser.], [1879]-1885." Cf. F.G. Kitton. Chas. Dickens and his illustrators, 1899, p. 228

Also issued by Cassell in a 1 v. edition ca. 1894. Cf. Podeschi, J.B. Dickens & Dickensiana, p. 359

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